What is so "sacred" about a 50% divorce rate among those married?

[Lovecrafty]

I had a heated discussion about the subject of gay marriage with a freeper relative of mine last night. Very disturbing. The relative is my uncle, died-in-the-wool Rwinger, and he basically spewed the standard anti-gay marriage rhetoric you hear from every other freeper: That gay marriage would destroy the sanctity of marriage. I asked him how some gay people across town whom you will NEVER see affect his own marriage with my aunt if they were to marry...whether it will effect the love he apparently has with my aunt. The question kinda caught him off guard, but he came back with "Well it would destroy the traditional concept of marriage."

So I mentioned the divorce rate in the US. You know. The 50% divorce rate among married couples. I asked him if he thought that divorce destroys the sanctity of marriage...according to the bible, of course. He began to hesitate longer in his responses and it was then I begin to see that glazed over look appear in his face. He was shutting down his brain and turning it on autopilot. He began to ramble about what did a liberal like me know about what the bible says and Jesus never said divorce was a sin. I agreed. But then I caught him finally with the remarriage thing! You see, my uncle has been married FOUR times!!! So I grabbed the family bible and had him read Luke 16:18 "Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery." I even mentioned that, according to biblical law, what my Uncle did by remarrying four times is equal to what Clinton did!

Oh that set him off! Again the lights went out in his eyes and you could see him switch into robot mode! He began blaming Clinton for EVERYTHING..spewing the standard Hannity/Limbaugh talking points and really had no individual input on the matter. But rather than waste any more of my time time arguing with this thing that used to be my Uncle Terry, I went outside and played with my little cousins...

Wondering what life is gonna be like for them in a house with the blinders on....